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Global Justice
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Joshua Cohen - Stanford University
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Address to National Convention, Democratici di Sinistra, December 2005, Florence
Address to National Convention, Democratici di Sinistra, December 3, 2005, Florence
His view is that war is a human catastrophe, not an exciting, noble adventure. Because it is a catastrophe, you should only fight when you must. You should only fight in a war of necessity, never in a war of choice. You fight when there is a great and imminent evil and no way of preventing it without fighting.
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